Obituaries
Viktor Tikhonov, the stern hockey coach who led the Soviet Union’s “Big Red Machine” to three Olympic gold medals and eight world championships but was on the losing side when Herb Brooks’ American college kids pulled off the “Miracle on Ice” at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games, died Sunday in Moscow, according to the Russian ice hockey federation.
Nov. 24, 2014
Olympics
An offer to resign by Viktor Tikhonov, coach of the victorious Soviet Olympic hockey team, has been rejected and he is planning to guide the team in the 1992 Winter Games.
March 3, 1988
Viktor Tikhonov, coach of the Soviet national hockey team, said a major reason for losing the Canada Cup final earlier this month was “bias and errors in refereeing.”
Sept. 24, 1987
Hockey
To counter raids by NHL teams on their best players, Soviet hockey officials are stepping up plans to start a professional league in their country, the coach of the Soviet national team says.
Nov. 29, 1991
Hockey superstar Vyacheslav Fetisov, who quit the Soviet army team in January, will rejoin the national team and play in the world championships in Sweden next month.
March 21, 1989
Soviet hockey players and laboratory workers conspired to deceive drug testers at the 1986 World Championships in Moscow by switching urine specimens in the toilets, former Soviet star Igor Larionov claims in a new book.
Nov. 5, 1989
Viktor Tikhonov was once the very symbol of the Soviet hockey system, the Big Red Machine that dominated international competition for so many years.
Aug. 14, 1994
Unified Team Coach Viktor Tikhonov was evasive Sunday when asked if he would return to coach in 1994 at Lillehammer, Norway.
Feb. 24, 1992
Russia’s assistant hockey coach, Igor Dmitriev, defused German press reports claiming that Coach Viktor Tikhonov had been replaced by a third coach who appeared behind the bench for the final period of Monday’s 5-0 loss to Finland.
Feb. 17, 1994
Fedorov sports his signature No. 91 and says he’s serious about fitting in with Anaheim’s system.
Aug. 21, 2003